ENOC hosts the 3rd Regional Environment, Health and Safety Conference

Bringing together many EHS and business managers in the region to an open forum of learning and ideas exchange, this year's conference focused on organisational and behavioural change management. A mixture of international regional and local experiences were discussed and shared in the forum.

The conference spoke of improving operative EHS competencies and engagement enhancement, and development and maintenance initiatives that have the power to create transitional changes within the organisation through mindset and behaviour changes in its employees.

Pleased with the company's role in promoting the best EHS practices, Hussain Sultan, ENOC Group Chief Executive, said, "As the leading Oil and Gas Company in Dubai, we are proud to have taken the lead in developing EHS Management frameworks to enhance our employees' competencies and engagement, in turn building and harnessing a healthy, safe and eco-friendly environment."

ENOC is committed not only to making change within its Group of over 30 subsidiaries, but also aims to influence its partners, shareholders, suppliers, contractors and the public it interacts with, to focus on Environment, Health and Safety development.

Moreover, EMGAS, a fully-owned ENOC subsidiary, signed a MOU with the RTA last week to work on a pilot project aimed at studying the transformation of the polluting gas oil engines of the Abras at Dubai Creek to a clean fuel. ENOC Group's EHSQ Compliance Department is also currently working on a project with the Federal Environment Agency (FEA) on a vehicle pollution quantification study, along with Tasjeel, another subsidiary of the ENOC Group. ENOC has been consistently involved in various environmental projects in the past including the major environmental report with the Department of Civil Aviation/Dubai International Airport in 2005.

The first ENOC EHS Conference took place in 2004, and this annual event has gathered significant interest in the following years and has been well attended by a host of senior delegates from different organisations. Each event carries a different theme and this year the theme was "Developing a Resilient EHS Culture Effectively". The Conference was run in partnership with one of the most important and effective EHS vocational training institutions in the Gulf, the Fire Safety Engineering College for the Sultanate of Oman.

The event also featured a panel of high profile speakers that included the world authority of Behavioural Based Safety Sciences, Professor Domenic Copper; Parthiban Naidu of Operational Excellence-Chevron, USA; Paul Daly Assistant Dean Head of Vocational Training and Chief Fire Officer of the FSEC, Sultanate of Oman; Waddah Ghanem Bani Hashem, ENOC Group's EHSQ Compliance Manager; Abdullah Al Marzooqi ADCO's HSE Director; Saleh Al Janeeh, Technology Transfer Manager-DUBAL and current Chairman of the Emirates Safety Group; Garry Crighton Dodsal's HSE Director and VP of the Emirates Safety Group in addition to Hamed Al Esry for the Sultanate of Oman who is PDO's Corporate Road Safety Advisor.